Thread: How many people leave some props up all year?

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I'm sure this question has been asked before, but I'm curious...

How many people leave some props up all year?

I have a skeleton in a stockade with "No Soliciting" carved in the top which I leave up all year round in the small garden at the end of the driveway. I also have some stuff on the front porch like ceramic pumpkins and an old wood shelf with some apothecary stuff on it that stays out all year. One more prop I leave out most of the year is my yard haunt sign. It's basically a permanent fixture, so I don't know if I should even refer to it as a prop.

Inside the house I have some decorations on shelves and some metal signs on the walls that stay up all year.

I'm a year-round horror movie fan, so my lifesize Gremlin is always hanging out on top of the china cabinet, but this year he's joined by the Creature From The Black Lagoon we built. The Jeepers Creepers Creeper we built stays up all year also. Last year he was in my son's room, and this year he's out in our mancave aka garage.

I have a skull wall sconce that stays up in my workshop all year long with a flickering flame bulb. I also have Jack and Sally collectible items that are displayed in the wall unit in the Living Room all the time because, as Sally says, "they're nice things that should be displayed".

My GF clock is now in my basement office for lack of any other space to store it, but that was my plan all along.

Sally also had a dancing witch shadow box type of picture that got hung in the Dining room back in 2009 and she didn't find something else to replace it until about a year later, which I greatly appreciated.

Not sure if this counts but I store all my props in my garage so I set up a mini haunt that is there all year, rather than just packing it away.

Too funny TK421 - I was going to start this exact post this morning! I was thinking of the items I keep up as I was making breakfast. Mine are pretty subtle - a wrought iron pumpkin candle holder, I have Jack Skellington head magnets on the side of the refrigerator (the front isn't magnetic), a framed picture of my husband and I from the previous year's Halloween, and that's about it. One thing I plan to build early next year for 2012's Nightmare Before Christmas theme is the Halloween Town countdown clock. I plan on keeping it up year-round in a tucked away spot in the house, like my secret daily dose of Halloween.

I have two gargoyles that sit either side of my double bay in my front garden. One fell down over the summer, so now he has a rat appearing from the crack in his head, along with blood dripping from the wound. I also have a reaper permanently hanging from my shed. I have props set out as mini-displays in my shed. But there is still a lot packed away.

I have a skull and a candelabra that gets placed back on the mantel in the living room when they come out of the haunted house. Wife hates them but I think they look cool sitting there year round.

This is our first year attempting the year round, have 2 intended for year round survival. I consider them a test at the moment...

My 15 year old daughter asked if she could keep our life-size mummy in her room this year! I had no problem with that at all.

I have my mini 3' skeleton sitting on my office couch with his arms around a funkin, a couple masks and rats sitting out on my shelf and a light up pumpkin on top of my office tv. Then I have a pile of skulls in my living room that are on a remote so I can light them up whenever I want. I have a collection of gargoyles on my back deck and a bunch of stuff on my work bench I need to start working on.